Paper Crafting Monthly Blog Hop - Easter Baskets

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Today I'm joining the fabulous paper crafting monthly blog hop of fabulous international crafters.  Join us for a world tour of inspiration!

This month we are sharing EASTER!!  

and these cute little baskets are my go-to every year.  I love how easy they are, how quick they are to put together, and how fun they are to change it up every year depending on the supplies I have on hand!!  

So far, the only thing in my little baskets is some scrunched Lemon Lolly or Bubble Bath two tone cardstock to create a little nest for the goodies I will give for Easter.  

I've used the super gorgeous and totally cute Softest Spring puffy stickers for my embellishments!!  SOOO ADORABLE!  The baskets are made from the Pleasant Patterns DSP which is cardstock weight which is just PERFECT to create little baskets and boxes for gift giving!  

I've used the Modern Oval punch for tags and added a greeting with the Triple Banner Punch and the Banner Sayings stamp set - these two come in a great bundle making it super easy to use!  

Here's a video showing how to make these cuties!

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of AWESOME inspiration!!

Easter Basket Puffy Sticker fun

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Creativity Abounds Blog Hop

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Welcome to our Creativity Abounds Blog Hop. We are a group of very keen Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from all around the world that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire your creativity.

If you live in Australia and shop with me you will receive this tutorial bundle FREE! The tutorial has full instructions and metric and imperial measurements for 13 different cards. The tutorial bundle can be purchased for $25. Please email me if you would like to purchase the bundle.

Our blog hop each month is a project along the theme of the tutorial, but is a different design from the tutorial project. 

This is my first month joining in this amazing group and I was super fortunate to meet some of this amazing team at our recent Onstage event in Sydney!!  Thankyou so much Beth and Lorraine for making me feel welcome when Sharni introduced us!  

Our Theme this month is Life Events. This project for our blog hop is a wedding card.

I've used the gorgeous Forever Florals bundle from our Online Exclusive collection with some stunning Copper Foil layered over the top of vellum.

I have also added some cute hearts from the Endless Love Dies again in the foil.

I've stamped using Pecan Pie ink which works quite nicely with the foil.

Inisde the card is some more die cut foil from the Forever Foils dies.

My card for our tutorial bundle is a baby card!  

Make sure you keep hopping for LOTS more great Inspiration!!

Forever Florals Foil Wedding

Here's a sneak peek of the Free Tutorial this month from Creativity Abounds when you place an order through me!  

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Delicate Dreams DSP card CTC#561

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Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)

This week, we are CASEING from the Annual Catalogue before it retires at the end of April

I've been inspired by this great card on page 41 from the spread featuring the Florals in Bloom collection.  I love the two different designer papers together and mixed font greeting.

My card features a mixed font greeting but it is much more subtle!! I do hope you can see the designer paper inspiration though!!!  

I've used the lovely Delicate Dreams designer paper combined with the Delicated Designs foil specialty paper.  AND the card front also features another paper from the Delicate Dreams pack - the B side which has a lovely subtle tonal design in Gray Granite.  

To enhance my greeting, I've die cut a bundle of elements from the Delicate Whispers die set using Secret Sea, and Textured Metallic Foil.  Inside the card is some simple stamping in Gray Granite.  

Up next is the extraordinary 

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of great ideas!

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.

Lovely Arrangements in CI#205

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Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combination!!

Now I'm not a pink person - I love green BUT, if I do have to use it, Berry Burst is my favourite!!  

I've created a fun fold card featuring the gorgeous Lovely Arrangements bundle.

I've also used the Stone and Vine embossing folder, AND the fabulous Branching Out Dies.

I've called this a triple double z fold - I'm sure there is a specific name for it!!  

For the Granny Apple Green cardstock, I've created my own designer paper by stamping on cardstock with the same coloured ink making a great tone on tone effect with the fabulous leaves.  

The back of the card features a fabulous writing panel, so the recipient can enjoy the fabulous front!

I'm sure you will have an amazing time creating with these gorgeous colours!!  

INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.

Lovely Arrangements Colour Challenge

Please head over to my online store if you wish to see these products in more detail - and you can place your order anytime (if you're in Australia) while you're there (even if you're in your pyjamas!!) 

 And, if you can see yourself creating cards and sharing your love of papercrafts while inspiring others, perhaps you might be interested in joining my Stampin' Up! family - contact me to find out how.